Training Log Archive: schnitzerIn the 7 days ending Jun 15, 2008:
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Sunday Jun 15, 2008 #
Orienteering race (Sexy Forest) 1:51:26 [3] ***** 13.1 km (8:30 / km) +400m 7:23 / km
spiked:21/25c
Jylhanpera. After missing four quality sessions resting up the dodgy wankle I was feeling like I had to have a fantastic run for me to be satisfied that coming to Finland was not a complete waste of my life, energy and money. Jogging around in easy terrain warming up felt pretty solid in the ankle but had the farts for some reason. Probs too much jumbo frankfurter.
Started off slightly faster than long training on Weds but took it easy in the terrain while it was still fairly dark i.e the first hour. Nav was spot on in that period as well, played it safe on a couple of routes but was generally running past plenty lack of line feature victims doing uncanny lighthouse impressions. At the furthest point away from the assembly the terrain was at its rockiest and by this point it was obv to me that my ankle was still quite poorly and it was a bit heart-in-mouth until I got into some more runnable stuff. Started to push a bit harder then and a few mistakes crept in the biggest being a parallel error - 2mins.
Overall quite happy with my result - 220th for the leg (366th for the same leg last year) and only 7mins off Jon Musgrave, 23mins off the winner. Very happy with the team result - 358th (483rd last year). Bring on next year!
Started off slightly faster than long training on Weds but took it easy in the terrain while it was still fairly dark i.e the first hour. Nav was spot on in that period as well, played it safe on a couple of routes but was generally running past plenty lack of line feature victims doing uncanny lighthouse impressions. At the furthest point away from the assembly the terrain was at its rockiest and by this point it was obv to me that my ankle was still quite poorly and it was a bit heart-in-mouth until I got into some more runnable stuff. Started to push a bit harder then and a few mistakes crept in the biggest being a parallel error - 2mins.
Overall quite happy with my result - 220th for the leg (366th for the same leg last year) and only 7mins off Jon Musgrave, 23mins off the winner. Very happy with the team result - 358th (483rd last year). Bring on next year!
Thursday Jun 12, 2008 #
Orienteering (Sexy Forest) 19:30 [1] *****
Aitovuori. Planned a short course and a line into it. The line went pretty well but only cause I was going so slowly. Every time I tried to break into a run my ankle was so painful - obv 13km yesterday was not one of the best decisions I've ever made. Didn't bother with the course just walked back to the car at the end of the line.
Wednesday Jun 11, 2008 #
Orienteering long (Sexy Forest) 2:07:30 [3] ***** 13.0 km (9:48 / km)
spiked:21/25c
Hyytiala. Ankle much better after a day off yesterday so designed a long course out of almost all the controls on the overlapping training maps 1/2. Didn't run it at race intensity so found it fairly easy and it gave me time to really enjoy myself - something that has been missing recently. Spiking controls in areas like this makes me proper fall in love with o-ing again.
Monday Jun 9, 2008 #
Note
Walking long (Road/XC/Terrain) 14.3km & 1105m.
Bethesda - Carnedd Dafydd - Carnedd Llewelyn - Yr Elen - Bethesda. Gutted to have missed the first couple days of the lads mountain trip but drove up to North Wales after Brown Clee to join Deano, Rich and Dan for the last couple. Dan was fairly broken from their Saturday Glyderau exploits so didn't join us on a Carnethau horsehoe route none of us had done before.
Started off in Bethesda and soon got into some rock hopping action up a gentle river. This was fairly taxing - balance denied with my dodgy right ankle and ended up in plenty boots full of water situations. After the river settled down we moved up onto the gypsy trail and this was fairly boring until we reached the steep part of the ascent. After we were all sweaty betty we got to the scrambling bit and am pleased to report it did live up to the three star rating - some variation possible over a fairly prolonged set of simple steps with some great views and a fair amount of exposure. We chilled Winston at the summit of Carnedd Dafydd with a bbq and a couple of ciders and then death marched the rest of the horseshoe summiting Carnedd Llewelyn and Yr Ellen. The latter was the last of the 15 Welsh 3000's for me to bag and it's been a long time coming!
http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-kingdom/bangor/...
Bethesda - Carnedd Dafydd - Carnedd Llewelyn - Yr Elen - Bethesda. Gutted to have missed the first couple days of the lads mountain trip but drove up to North Wales after Brown Clee to join Deano, Rich and Dan for the last couple. Dan was fairly broken from their Saturday Glyderau exploits so didn't join us on a Carnethau horsehoe route none of us had done before.
Started off in Bethesda and soon got into some rock hopping action up a gentle river. This was fairly taxing - balance denied with my dodgy right ankle and ended up in plenty boots full of water situations. After the river settled down we moved up onto the gypsy trail and this was fairly boring until we reached the steep part of the ascent. After we were all sweaty betty we got to the scrambling bit and am pleased to report it did live up to the three star rating - some variation possible over a fairly prolonged set of simple steps with some great views and a fair amount of exposure. We chilled Winston at the summit of Carnedd Dafydd with a bbq and a couple of ciders and then death marched the rest of the horseshoe summiting Carnedd Llewelyn and Yr Ellen. The latter was the last of the 15 Welsh 3000's for me to bag and it's been a long time coming!
http://www.mapmyrun.com/run/united-kingdom/bangor/...